Morning Edition had a piece on the long-term budget problem and never once referred to health care. That's sort of like discussing the rise in death rates in the the early 1940s without mentioning World War II. As everyone who knows anything about the budget knows, the long-term deficit story is health care, health care, health care. If the economists and policy makers were not such hard core protectionists, this problem would go away tomorrow.
--Dean Baker
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